Cuff



S. H. OGDEN Sept. 4, 1923.

CUFF

Filed Jan. 20, 1922 ig-| Patented Sept. 4, 1923.V

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SIDNEY H. OGDEN, OF BRIDGETON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORNOF ONE-HALF TO FRANCIS H. BROXVN, OF GERMANTOYVN, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application filed January 2o, 1922. seriai' No. 530,612.

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Be it. known that l, SIDNEY H. OGDEN, a c'izen of the United States, residing at Bridgeton, in the Acounty of Cumberland Aand State of New Jersey, have invented cer- The ordinary foldable cuff is often difficult.

' tobutton and considerable time `is wasted because yof the necessity of inserting the button through four different button holes. ln my invention there are but two button yholes and these are ifirmer and stronger than in the ordinary construction It frequently happens also thatA in laundering the l cuff is folded elsewhere than atthe` proper fold line and thiscauses the button holes to be out o-f aline-ment with each other and mars the appearance of the cuff in use.

Referring to the accompanying dra-wings which are made apart hereof and on which similar reference. characters `indicate simi! lar parts, Y f. f K o Figure 1 is a rear view of my improved cuif unfolded to show the sewed seams, Figure12 shows the cuff as used, and Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 Vof Figure 2. y In the drawings 10 indicates a cuff blank formed in conventional manner from two or more thicknesses of material and having two ends 11 and 12 and two sides 13 and 1l. In one method of making such a cuff blank l take two or more thicknesses of lmaterial and sew them together by a seam 1 5 invisible `in the finished cuff, sewed close to the edge and extending along one side and both ends of the same to form` the blank as a sort of pocket. A piece of lining material may be placed at the top or bottom of the pile of pieces so as to lie inside the pocket after the parts are sewed together and reversed. YA seam 16 is then made beginning near the upper margin in Figure 1 rand extending along the end 11, the side 13 and thence across the end 12 to a similar dista-nce as at the other end. The cuff is rthen folded and submitted to the action of a button hole sewing machine in such a that the button holes 17 are cut through both the folded portions at the sainetime and the stitches are made thronghall of the thicknesses of clot-h` ln this manner the buttonV hole stitches hold rthe* cuff permanently folded. After this the cuff'isattached to a sleevepby inserting` the edge of the sleeve between the thicknesses at the side 14,(Ii`ig. l) down to the ends of seam 16 and sewing the cuff to the sleeve. The above operations, aside from the novel button hole `forming step, are old and well known in the art and any other method of forming a. cuff-blank maybe substituted` therefor. .Y f f "It willbe seen that my cuff does not merely imitate'the ordinary folda-ble cuff Vbutthat it is in fact the saine thing exceptr thatthe folds are permanently united by the button hole stitches. There is nothing i in the struct-ure to detract from the appear'- ance of the cuff in use either in rcolor or form'of materialor in fleXibilit/gY or otherwise. Thest-itches merely hold' the foldsclose together and to this extent supplement the action of the cuff button but giveno evidence of theirpresence when the cuff is worn, in factform'invisible means for holdf ing the cuffy in folded relation. The stitches will not interfere with proper laundering of the cuff and the folds Aare heldsecurely in proper position.

Having thus fully described myV said invention, what l claim as new and desire to secureY byLetters Patent, is:

l. A reversely yfolded cuff .having one longitudinal edge attached tothe sleeve and having at each end abutton hole extending through the folded portions andstitches about `the button hole permanently uniting and constituting the sole-fastening for the folded portions, substantially as set forth.

2. vcuif having one portion secured to the sleeve and ,havingV n another portion folded backwardly upon thei'irst portion each end of said Gulf having a button hole by hand and seal at Vashington, District extending through both of said portions of Columbia, this 17th dey ol" January, A. and stitches about each button hole permzt- D. nineteen hundred and twenty-two.

nently uniting and constituting the sole SDNEY H. OGDE. [n sj 5 fastening for the folded portions, substan- Viltnesses:

tially as set Jforth. E. K. REICHENBACH,

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set F. W. DAHN. 

